Ebook: From Good Will To Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy
Author: Scotch Richard
- Tags: Disabled Legislation - U.S, Law Politics & Government, Law - U.S, People with disabilities, Social sciences, Law, Electronic books
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Temple University Press
- City: Philadelphia
- Language: English
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 A Civil Rights Law for Disabled People; 2 From Good Will to Civil Rights; 3 The Genesis of Section 504; 4 Writing the Regulation for Section 504; 5 Advocacy and the Hew Regulation; 6 Policy Dissemination; 7 Symbolic Victories: The Evolution of Section 504; Epilogue; Appendixes; Notes; Index.;Now that curb cuts, braille elevator buttons, and closed caption television are commonplace, many people assume that disabled people are now full participants in American society. This book tells a rather different story. It tells how America's disabled mobilized to effect sweeping changes in public policy, not once but twice, and it suggests that the struggle is not yet over. The first edition of From Good Will to Civil Rights traced the changes in federal disability policy, focusing on the development and implementation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Richard K. Scotch's ex.
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